Mack-2014/2 - Vestibular MACKENZIE (02/06/2014) - Prova de INGLÊS com gabarito e questões comentadas.

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Neste post, veremos a Prova de INGLÊS - Vestibular MACKENZIE-2014 - PROVA MEIO DO ANO -  aplicada em 02/06/2014.

[a]Banca/Organizadora:

MACKENZIE - UNIVERSIDADE PRESBITERIANA MACKENZIE
[b]Padrão/Composição da prova
🔄  FONTE DE TEXTO:
👉Revista "NewsWeek Magazine" com site www.newsweek.com

🔄  TEMAS ABORDADO NOS TEXTOS:
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👉07 Questões(múltiplas escolhas com 05 alternativas cada)
👉Interpretação textual
👉Vocabulário
👉Gramática
🔄Texto  1  "The Rebel Years"
(Os anos rebeldes)
➧Com 02 questões(12,13)

🔄Texto  2  "Stop Wishing You Were Somewhere Else"(Pare de desejar que você estivesse em outro lugar)
➧Com 02 questões(14,15)

🔄Texto  3  BREAKING BAD
(LIBERANDO O MAL)
➧Com 02 questões(16,17)

🔄Texto  4  Tirinha)
➧Com 01 questão(18)

[c] Dicionários:

Caso necessário,sugiro que consulte os 02(dois) excelentes dicionários a seguir:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
http:/www.macmillandictionary.com/

🔄Verbos
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🔄Phrasal Verbs:
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🔄Expressões verbais com o TO BE(simple present/simple past/simple future/ be going to/present continuous/past continuous/future continuous):
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🔄Expressões verbais no PERFECT TENSE(present perfect/past perfect/present perfect continuous/past perfect continuous):
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🔄Expressões com os 10 modais(can/could/may/might/must/should/would/ought to/will/shall):
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🔄Expressões com 30 verbos/substantivos que transmitem ideia que ALGO CAIU, DESPENCOU, DECLINOU, REDUZIU, ENFRAQUECEU, AFOGOU (fall/flop/faint/drop/droop/down/ decrease/decline/diminish/dwindle/dip/dive/duck/ease/ebb/gasp/lower/mitigate/ plunge/sag/slash/slump/split/shrink/sink/stoop/stumble/wane/weaken/wilt):
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🔄Expressões: 25 verbs/nouns que transmitem ideia que algo SUBIU,ELEVOU, AUMENTOU, MELHOROU,REAGIU,ABASTECEU,AMPLIOU,(arise,better,boom, boost, broaden, clim, flood, fuel,further,grow,improve,increase,jump,lift,raise,rally,rise, skyrocket, soar, strenghten, surface,surpass,trigger, up, upgrade,widen):
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🔄Expressões: verbs/nouns que transmitem ideia que ALGO MUDOU, TROCOU, PERMUTOU, TRANSFORMOU,ALTEROU,REFORMOU, SUBSTITUIU, CONVERTEU, ESCAMBOU, MODIFICOU, VIROU(amend,barter,change ,convert, exchange,replace,swap,switch ,swop,vary, turn around):
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🔄Expressões com 20 verbos que transmitem ideia de COMBATE, DISPUTA, LUTA, GUERRA, COLISÃO, ATINGIR, ESPANCAR, SOCAR, BATER(bash,battle,beat, brawl, clash,cuff, fight ,grapple,hit,knock,punch,quarrel,slap,apank,apar, strike, tackle ,tussle,whack,wrestle):
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🔄Expressões com verbos com ING:

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🔄Expressões com VERBOS EM GERAL:
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🔄Expressões com 30 adjetivos que transmitem ideia que ALGO/ALGUÉM ESTÁ EM SITUAÇÃO RUIM/PARA BAIXO/DIFÍCIL (annoying, awful,boring,dim,dire, downward ,dreadful,dull,fearsome,frightful,gloomy,grim,hard,idle,irksome,maddening,misty,murky,nagging,wane,outrageous,pesky,shadowy,sluggish,thankless,thorny,tiresome,troublesome,worrisome,wearisome):
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🔄Advérbios/Locução adverbial:
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🔄Conectores/Marcadores de discurso:
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🔄Expressões ADJETIVO+SUBSTANTIVO:
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🔄Expressões/Vocábulos técnicos:
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🔄Expressões com 'S (Genitive case=proprietário 'S propriedade):
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🔄Expressões com frações/números:
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🔄Questions:
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🔄Falso cognato:
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Agora, vamos à prova.

The following text refers to questions 12 and 13.

The Rebel Years

In March 1957, Elvis purchased the Graceland estate in Memphis. The address today is: 3764 Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee 38116.

The Colonial house is located _( I )_ a hill surrounded _( II ) _ fourteen acres _( III )_ land with a stand _( IV )_ mature trees, a barn and a tennis court. The estate is enclosed _( V )_ an eight-foot-high brick wall. The main entrance is a large iron gate _( VI )_ musical insignia. The house was built _( VII )_ tan Tennessee limestone and contained twenty-three rooms including five bedrooms. _( VIII )_ a spacious entry hall, the front part of the luxuriously appointed house comprises the living, dining and music rooms. Along the walls are large, white sofas.

The focus of attention is the gilded concert grand piano. The curtains are white interlaced with gold thread. The shag rug is so thick that your shoes nearly disappear. At the back of the house are the recreation rooms, covering nearly the entire length of the house and about half of its breadth. The billiard room is dominated by a large pool table. The trophy room contains Elvis’s gold and platinum records. Upstairs is the bedroom suite and the guest rooms. The bedroom: navy-blue shag run, oversized white bed with built-in telephone, intercom, TV controls. After the bedroom come the study and the mirror-lined bath. Sixteen televisions are found throughout the house.

Since June 7, 1982, Graceland has been open to the public for an admission fee ($16.00: April 1993). An average of 2,500 visit the house every day.

Adapted from The Rebel Years by Lester Bangs

 👉  Questão   12 

The words that properly fill in blanks I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII, in the text, are

a) I - in / II - of / III - of / IV - at / V - on / VI - in / VII - by / VIII - before

b) I - at / II - with / III - in / IV - on / V - on / VI - by / VII - with / VIII - around

c) I - in / II - in / III - through / IV - about / V - about / VI - for / VII - of / VIII - when

d) I - on / II - by / III - of / IV - of / V - by / VI - with / VII - of / VIII - after

e) I - out of / II - on / III - in / IV - around / V - over / VI - from / VII - at / VIII - afterward.

👍 Comentários e Gabarito   D 

TÓPICO - Questão sobre INTERPRETAÇÃO TEXTUAL:

➽Alternativa (D): I - on / II - by / III - of / IV - of / V - by / VI - with / VII - of / VIII - after
➽ (I)...is located on
➽ (II)...surrounded by
➽ (III)...of land with
➽ (IV)...a stand of mature trees
➽ (V)...is enclosed by
➽ (VI)...with musical insignia
➽ (VII)...built of tan
➽ (VIII)...after a spacious entry

 👉  Questão   13 

According to the text,

a) fifty percent of the width of the house is dedicated to entertainment.

b) because of the shag rug in the mansion, one can’t walk barefoot inside it.

c) the pool in the house is really big and you can use it after paying a tax of $16.00.

d) the music room can be found in the front part of the house and it’s packed with televisions and oversized white beds.

e) a luxuriously tall brick wall surrounds the main entrance of the house, behind which a large vegetation garden can be seen.

👍 Comentários e Gabarito   A 

TÓPICO - Questão sobre INTERPRETAÇÃO TEXTUAL:

De acordo com o texto,
*Alternativa (A): cinquenta por cento da largura da casa é dedicada ao entretenimento.
*Alternativa (B): por causa do tapete felpudo na mansão, não se pode andar descalço por dentro.
*Alternativa (C): a piscina da casa é muito grande e você pode usá-lo depois de pagar um imposto de US $ 16,00.
*Alternativa (D): a sala de música pode ser encontrada na parte da frente da casa e está repleta de televisores e camas brancas grandes.
*Alternativa (E): uma parede de tijolos luxuosamente alta rodeia a entrada principal da casa, atrás da qual pode ser visto um grande jardim de vegetação.

The following text refers to questions 14 and 15.

Stop Wishing You Were Somewhere Else

If you reflect on this insidious tendency to be wishing you were somewhere else, you may agree that it’s a silly, even self-destructive thing to do. Before

you jump up and say, “Wait a minute, I don’t do that,” let me explain what I mean.

There are many ways that we __ ( I )__ time wishing we __ ( II )__ somewhere else. We’ll be at work and wish we __ ( III )__ home. Or during the middle of the week we __ ( IV )__ it were Friday. Sometimes

we wish we __ ( V )__ something else with our careers. We wish we __ ( VI )__ different responsibilities or could spend our time with different

people. We wish our boss were different, or our employees. We wish our working environment were different or we had a different kind of commute.

We wish our industry were different, or that our circumstances would change. This list could obviously go on. The problem is, these wishes aren’t reality, but rather, they are thoughts of a different reality.

If you’re not careful, you can begin to wish your life away, always wishing you were somewhere other than where you actually are. But you’re not

somewhere else. Rather, you’re right here. This is reality. One of my favorite quotes is, “Life is what’s happening while we’re busy making other

plans.” A slightly different version might be, “Life is what’s happening while we’re wishing we were elsewhere.” When you are wishing you were

somewhere else, it’s almost as though you are one step removed from life rather than actually being in it, open to life exactly as it is.

From a practical standpoint, it’s very difficult to be focused and effective when your mind is preoccupied with where it would rather be. In fact, the

two are a contradiction of terms. Your concentration suffers because there is a lack of engagement, a lack of zeroing in on what’s truly significant.

In addition, it’s virtually impossible to enjoy yourself and what you are doing when you’re focused more on where you’d rather be than where you actually are. Think about the things you enjoy most. In all cases, they are activities where you are completely absorbed in the moment, really focused on what you are doing. In the absence of the focus, the joy you

experience is diminished. How much fun is it to read a good novel when you’re thinking about something else?

Adapted from Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff Treasury – A Special Collection for the Office by Richard Carlson

 👉  Questão   14 

The verbs that properly fill in blanks I, II, III, IV, V and VI, in the text, are

a) I - spend / II - were / III - were / IV - might be wishing / V - were doing / VI - had

b) I - spent / II - were / III - would be / IV - might wish / V - did / VI - had had

c) I - would spend / II - would be / III - were / IV - might be wishing /

V - would be doing / VI - were having

d) I - had spent / II - would be / III - were / IV - might have wished / V - had done / VI - could have

e) I - will spend / II - are / III - were / IV - might wish / V - did / VI – had

👍 Comentários e Gabarito   A 

TÓPICO - Questão sobre ESTRUTURAS VERBAIS:

 👉  Questão   15 

According to the text,

a) reality is what really matters when you’re busy making plans.

b) if you live your life away, you’re not careful and will end up being selfdestructive.

c) should you not worry about where you currently are, you can live your life to the full.

d) commuting to work makes you wish you were different.

e) being open to life requires a lot of carefulness.

👍 Comentários e Gabarito   C 

TÓPICO - Questão sobre INTERPRETAÇÃO TEXTUAL:

De acordo com o texto,
*Alternativa (A): a realidade é o que realmente importa quando você está ocupado fazendo planos.
*Alternativa (B): se você vive sua vida, você não é cuidadoso e acabará sendo auto-destrutivo.
*Alternativa (C): você não deveria se preocupar onde você atualmente está, você pode viver sua vida plenamente.
*Alternativa (D): viajar para o trabalho faz com que você deseje ser diferente.
*Alternativa (E): estar aberto à vida requer muito cuidado.

The following text refers to questions 16 and 17.

BREAKING BAD

Breaking Bad is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and produced in Albuquerque, New

Mexico, Breaking Bad is the __ ( I )__ story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with __ ( II )__ lung cancer at the beginning of the series. He turns to a life of crime, producing and selling methamphetamine, in order to secure

his family’s financial future before he dies, teaming with his former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). The series has been labeled a contemporary

western by its creator.

The series premiered on January 20, 2008 in the United States and Canada on the cable channel AMC, and the series finale aired on September 29,

2013. Breaking Bad received __ ( III )__ critical acclaim, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time. By its end, the

series was among the __ ( IV ) __ cable shows on American television, with audience numbers that doubled in the fifth season from the previous

year’s episodes.

Breaking Bad was created by Vince Gilligan, who spent several years writing the Fox series The X-Files. Gilligan wanted to create a series in which

the protagonist became the antagonist. “Television is historically good at keeping its characters in a self-imposed stasis so that shows can go on

for years or even decades,” he said. “When I realized this, the __ ( V )__ next step was to think, how can I do a show in which the fundamental drive is toward change?” He added that his goal with Walter White was to turn him from Mr. Chips into Scarface.

While Gilligan defines the term “breaking bad” as “to raise hell”, it apparently means more than that. According to Lily Rothman, it is an old phrase which “connotes more violence than ‘raising hell’ does....

The words possess a wide variety of nuances: to ‘break bad’ can mean to ‘go __ ( VI )__ ‘, to ‘defy authority’ and break the law, to be verbally

‘combative, belligerent, or __ ( VII )__ or, followed by the preposition ‘on,’ to ‘completely dominate or humiliate.’”

The concept emerged as Gilligan talked with his fellow writer Thomas Schnauz regarding their __ ( VIII )__ unemployment and joked that the

solution was for them to put a “meth lab in the back of an RV and drive around the country cooking meth and making money.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad

 👉  Questão   16 

The adjectives that properly fill in blanks I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII,

in the text, are

a) I -clumsy / II - hospitable / III - unusual / IV - watchable / V - coherent / VI - trendy / VII - committed / VIII – present

b) I -short / II - busy / III - popular / IV - widely-shown / V - well informed / VI - crazy / VII - strange / VIII - wild

c) I - unfinished / II - incurable / III - well known / IV - famous / V - struggling / VI - impeccable / VII - terrifying / VIII - brand new

d) I - two-year-long / II - inoperable / III - widespread / IV - most-watched / V -logical / VI - wild / VII - threatening / VIII – current

e) I - formidable / II - confusing / III - long-living / IV - unheard-of / V - unbeatable / VI - unforgettable / VII - mad / VIII - afterward

👍 Comentários e Gabarito   D 

TÓPICO - Questão sobre INTERPRETAÇÃO TEXTUAL:

 👉  Questão   17 

According to the text,

a) in the story, Walter White comes up with a suspicious plan to make up for his poor medical condition before his death.

b) the term “breaking bad” is unknown to many contemporary writers due to its different nuances.

c) the concept of the series was put into practice by writer Thomas Schnauz, who meant to turn the protagonist into the antagonist in the story.

d) The X-Files, written by Vince Gilligan, as well as Breaking Bad, received critical acclaim, and are widely regarded as the greatest television series of

all time.

e) Breaking Bad has been on TV since 2008, and has been really successful since then.

👍 Comentários e Gabarito   A 

TÓPICO - Questão sobre INTERPRETAÇÃO TEXTUAL:
De acordo com o texto,
*Alternativa (A): na história, Walter White apresenta um plano suspeito para compensar sua condição médica precária antes de sua morte.
*Alternativa (B): o termo “quebrar mal” é desconhecido por muitos escritores contemporâneos devido a suas diferentes nuances.
*Alternativa (C): o conceito da série foi posto em prática pelo escritor Thomas Schnauz, que pretendia transformar o protagonista no antagonista da história.
*Alternativa (D): Os Arquivos X, escritos por Vince Gilligan, assim como Breaking Bad, foram aclamados pela crítica e são amplamente considerados como a maior série de televisão de todos os tempos.
*Alternativa (E): Breaking Bad está na TV desde 2008, e tem tido muito sucesso desde então.

 👉  Questão   18 

The space, in the cartoon, must be correctly completed with

a) I should be demanding a pizza!

b) Must I have demanded a pizza?

c) I hope I will demand a pizza!

d) Should I have demanded a pizza!

e) I could have demanded a pizza!

👍 Comentários e Gabarito   D 

TÓPICO - Questão sobre INTERPRETAÇÃO TEXTUAL:
espaço, no desenho animado, deve ser corretamente preenchido com
*Alternativa (A): Eu deveria estar exigindo uma pizza!
*Alternativa (B): Devo ter exigido uma pizza?
*Alternativa (C): Espero exigir uma pizza!
*Alternativa (D): Devo ter exigido uma pizza!
*Alternativa (E): Eu poderia ter exigido uma pizza!

* O verbo TO ORDER pode ser usado no sentido de pedir comida e bebida em restaurante, bar, lanchonete.